Saxby Chambliss Won't Seek Re-election

Republican decides to avoid potential 2014 primary challenge

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Saxby Chambliss will announce today that he doesn't intend to run for re-election when his Senate term ends in 2014, sources tell the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Chambliss reportedly told his senior staff about the decision this morning. Chambliss was considered one of the Republicans most ripe for a primary challenge, the Washington Post observes, thanks to his track record of bipartisan compromise and recent break with Grover Norquist.

Potential successors are sure to come out of the woodwork now. Two House members, Paul Broun and Tom Price, had already been considering primary challenges, and more, including Phil Gingrey and Tom Graves, are likely to consider throwing their hats in now. But there are also some bigger name possibilities: A recent poll, for instance, shows that Herman Cain would have trounced Chambliss in a primary, meaning he would be an early favorite if he decided to run.

Saxby Chambliss, one of the leaders of "The Gang of Six," participates in a discussion on the federal budget, during a luncheon of the Economic Club, June 8, 2011.
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

For the way that Saxby Chambliss slandered Max Cleland they should drop him in the back woods of Georgia and let the locals give him the Ned Beatty treatment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gLN3QoN-q8
Squeal like a pig Saxby!

lostmtnman

Jan 25, 2013 3:54 PM CST

Oh I want Herman Cain. Talk about fodder for the late night comics!

Twiny

Jan 25, 2013 11:31 AM CST

Leave it to the GOP to consider a sexual predator like Cain as the front runner for Georgia's open Senate seat. The man is a joke, for god's sake. His reputation came apart like a toilet paper house in the press. Is a man like that really the best the GOP can do?
That's just... sad.

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